Net neutrality déjà vu: The fight to regulate broadband providers just won’t die

Net neutrality is back in the Supreme Court’s orbit. Here’s what history says about the rule’s actual impact.

In February of 2017, Tom Rutledge, then-CEO of the telecom giant Charter, was asked on an investor call how changes in Washington were about to impact the company. At the time, analysts were curious about what would happen if the newly inaugurated Trump administration overturned the net neutrality rules that the Obama administration had put in place.